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23 April 1816 H? 59
Cat
Append. III
Dean Andrews
2. Vansittart
Display
but necessary
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On this occasion in matter source of sincerest the deepest regret
and the most acute compunction must not be dissembled
It is that by dragging the corruption into day light,
information of its existence may be given to one knows no one can
not say how many of those in whom the disposition to
profit by it exists or may be thus created, but whose who by
that ignorance of the real state of the country constitution which is
so general and so deplorable might otherwise have
been kept from profiting It The In this point of view the
case is like that of an indictment preferred against a
gaming house or a house of ill fame. [The culprit may be acquitted quite saved
or convicted. But at any rate the maximum has
stands on no other firm ground but ignorance
may by the information thus given be drawn off from it]
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But such is the state of things in this country, and
under the constitution in the state in which it lingers, is
the deplorable alternative. C Display Displaying Publish the corruption
you it: but yet to conceal it would be still
worse. To Display it, the mischief it is to increases the chance of remedy is next to nothing
But until it is displayed and fully displayed, all
remedy is absolutely impossible.
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No it is not without extreme grief and shame regret that
this pen can bring itself to be contributing to the circulating of
any such p among those whose interest will prompt
them to avail themselves of it a the any such suspicion and a that suspicion
supported upon such grounds — as that, on condition of getting
some
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